Building commodity networked storage systems is an important architectural trend; Commodity servers hosting a moderate number of consumer-grade disks and interconnected with a hig...
Microprocessor design is undergoing a major paradigm shift towards multi-core designs, in anticipation that future performance gains will come from exploiting threadlevel parallel...
Richard A. Hankins, Gautham N. Chinya, Jamison D. ...
Technology trends have led to the advent of multi-core chips in the form of both general-purpose chip multiprocessors (CMPs) and embedded multi-processor systems-on-a-chip (MPSoCs...
In response to current technology scaling trends, architects are developing a new style of processor, known as spatial computers. A spatial computer is composed of hundreds or eve...
Martha Mercaldi, Steven Swanson, Andrew Petersen, ...
IT today is driven by the trend of increasing scale and complexity. Utility and Grid computing models, PlanetLab, and traditional data centers, are reaching the scale of thousands...